Attention all Knifemakers!.....Product dealers/retailers and/or knife makers/sharpeners/hobbyists (etc) are not permitted to insert business related text/videos/images (company/company name/product references) and/or links into your signature line, your homepage url (within the homepage profile box), within any posts, within your avatar, nor anywhere else on this site. Market research (such as asking questions regarding or referring to products/services that you make/offer for sale or posting pictures of finished projects) is prohibited. These features are reserved for supporting vendors and hobbyists.....Also, there is no need to announce to the community that you are a knifemaker unless you're trying to sell something so please refrain from sharing.
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Yeah, I'd check out their websites--if it's on the internet, it should be there too. It'd be silly to run a business strictly on a section of a webforum.

True, it would be silly to run a business strictly off a web forum and I don't think any one does, but there is information within vendor threads that is applicable to the general whole. For example, Eamon, much of your vendor section is about sheaths and products you sell, but there are also great tidbits of information that others may enjoy having access to after you choose to stop paying the vendor fee. For example your thread on the Sab restoration, or the "epoxy pitting" thread are all valuable and should be accessible any time.

This is a difficult problem for us. We value all information and want to have it available for access but vendor forums are paid (business) forums that exist strictly for advertising purposes and require us to treat them as such. We have to consider that a vendor who chooses to close their sub-forum would still benefit the same as current good standing (paying) vendors do if the closed forum is left with open access.